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Building Pinkary: a social media that runs on SQLite and server costs of $7/mo
Hi HN community,
Let me introduce you to Pinkary: one link for all your socials — yes, it's a LinkTree alternative. We've reached over 450 users in just 24 hours, and after three weeks, we have 1,200 users with verified emails.
Pinkary allows you to create a minimal profile page that showcases all the important links you wish to share with your followers. In addition, you can ask questions (similar to ask.fm or CuriousCat) to engage with other users.
Currently, Pinkary is running on PHP 8.3, Laravel, Tailwind, Pest, Livewire, Alpine, and we are using Mailcoach for emails. Oh, and we're all in on SQLite – using it for the database, queue, sessions, and cache.
Also, the running costs are $7.80:
- $6.00 for a droplet on Digital Ocean: 1 CPU, 1GB Ram, 25GB disk size.
- $1.80 for daily backups on Digital Ocean.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions! I'm open to all kinds of feedback.
Here is the landing page: https://pinkary.com
Here is my profile: https://pinkary.com/@nunomaduro
- makerdiety 3y agoHow'd you get 450 users in 24 hours and 1,200 verified user emails over a three week period? And what are your long term plans for this side project?
- nunomaduro 3y agoWe have a following of 50k users on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enunomaduro https://twitter.com/enunomaduro), so that probably helps a bit. We regularly tweet about improvements on the platform, so I guess people get curious and create their accounts on https://pinkary.com/ https://pinkary.com/. > And what are your long-term plans for this side project? I'm not entirely sure here, especially because I'm not sure how to monetize the platform. However, I'm truly having fun building this project, so I guess I will keep building cool stuff on the platform in the coming weeks.
- CR007 3y agoWhy not the $4 bucket? There will be a DigitalOcean 1-Click app?
- nunomaduro 3y agoI need at least 1GB of RAM for my Vite JS build that is in the deployment script. The $4 droplet only has 512MB RAM. > There will be a DigitalOcean 1-Click app I am not familiar with the "DigitalOcean 1-Click app".
- CR007 3y agoThat's sad. DigitalOcean has a marketplace, you submit apps to end users one-click run. You build these from a packer snap. https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/vendors/guidelines-resources https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/vendors/guidelines-reso... I have two apps running there and another one under review. Takes about a week to get listed.